James Babbage

   
Nature: Visionary- | -Demeanor: Innovator
Essence: Static- | -Concept: Digital-Anarchy Intellectual
Affiliation: The Council of Traditions- | -Sect: Virtual Adepts
Handle: Eot DE-Stuart

Attributes


PhysicalSocialMental
Strength2Charisma3Perception3
Dexterity2Manipulation2Intelligence4
Stamina2Appearance3Wits3

Abilities


TalentsSkillsKnowledges
Alertness1Crafts0Academics2
Art1Drive0Computer3
Athletics2Etiquette1Cosmology0
Awareness1Firearms0Enigmas3
Brawl0Martial Arts0'''Esoterica2
Empathy1Meditation2Investigation0
'''Expression1Melee0Law0
Intimidation0Research0Medicine0
Leadership0Stealth0'''Occult1
Streetwise0Survival0Politics0
Subterfuge0Technology2Science2
Other TalentsOther SkillsOther Knowledges
'''Carousing1  
'''Instruction1  

Advantages


Spheres
'''Correspondence1
'''Entropy1
Forces0
'''Life1
Matter0
'''Mind1
'''Prime1
'''Spirit1
Time0
 
Backgrounds
Allies0
Alternate Identity0
Arcane0
'''Avatar3
Backup0
Blessing0
'''Certification2
[Teaching Certificate]
Chantry0
'''Contacts1
Cult0
Demense0
Destiny0
'''Dream2
Enhancement$0
Fame0
'''Familiar1
Influence0
Legend0
'''Library1
'''Mentor3
Node0
Past Lives0
Patron0
'''Rank1
'''Resources3
Retainers0
'''Sanctum$1
Spies0
Status0
Totem$0
Wonder0
 
Misc
Arete1
Willpower5
Quintessence3
Paradox0
Merits
Light Sleeper1
Language2
Natural Linguist2
Flaws
Curious2
Health Levels
Bruised-0 
Hurt-1 
Injured-1 
Wounded-2 
Mauled-2 
Crippled-5 
Incapacitated- 
Experience
Current3
Spent0
Total3

BIO

An awkward comic geek child who turned into a flowering webizen, a budding VA intellectual and a talented socialite.

DESCRIPTION

Median is both height and gait and fit of body. Coming from a mixed heritage, James' skin is naturally bronze and his short messy hair is dark black, but his eyes are of the most vibrant blue (and the sharp of eyes will notice a slight purple tint on the edge of noticeable). With his warm smile and developed social skills James easily becomes the centre of attention in any intellectual/cultural gathering. His online persona is of a fierce debater, uncompromised analyst and staunch defender of his Ideology of freedom and constructive chaos.

Less Than Obvious Details: James' body is covered in Varied tattoos of Scientific Equations, bits of musical notations, phrases in several languages and various symbols. Those, however, are not visible while James adorn his usual business-casual attire.

Known Languages: Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Ancient Egyptian

EQUIPMENT:

Smarphone Note, Tablet, VR set.


HISTORY:

A brilliant but awkward child, introvert and absent minded, James was always _that_ kid, who set in the croner, who had very few friends, who cloistered in his room with books and comics. Being the child of an asperger Mathematician and a sociable but shy Electronics Engineer, James’ parents never pushed him beyond his comfort zone.
As a University Professor, James’ mom always had the latest in Computing at home. The first to have a home PC, the first to adapt to windows, and the first to get the than new and eccentric *Intra-web*. James always thought of the computer as nothing more than a fun pastime, but adapted quickly to the world of coding and gaming, allbit as a passtime at best. And then, *The Internet* happened. One late night, crouched in the study on the family’s computer, James discovered a wild wide world: the Internet Forums. In the niches of these growing new community, James found kindred souls and matching minds, and before long the computer was his life. He was for the first time, in with his own.
Soon forum chain-posts, late night IRC chats and a growing net of Alts and Icons turned James from a socially side-stepped nerd to a flowering online socialite. At the age of 16 he attended his first meatspace meet-up, and sitting on a park bench, surrounded by all ages, sizes, shapes and forms of people James felt *home*. It was not long before late night web-strolling led him deeper and deeper into a virtual forest, straying far from the beaten path, until he arrived at a wall of code the like of which James could not even imagine. And thus were born the two lives of James Babbage: A dual-major college undergrad in Mathematics and Religious Studies and a part-time worker at a local government office during the day, and an internet socialite, anarchist intellectual and critique during the night, writing under the alt fo [Eot DE-Stuart]. And when time allowed, James returned again and again to those “dark” corners of the web, in which an increasingly insane and unimaginable line of riddles, codes and locks were waiting to be unlocked.
It was during his final year of Bachelor, after having cracked through several layers of top-IT security, that James met the Online Persona simply known as ‘L!Za’. L!Za, awaiting him in the other side of the online “gate”, quickly became his new Web best friend and mentor. Sending him to ever increasingly complicated tasks, conversing with him through long nights of philosophy, and introducing him to ideas well beyond anything you can find in the Library, L!Za slowly primed James, leading him eventually to anarchist cultural theories, mind-altering drugs and long sessions of stranger and stranger ideas, until at last, as he was partying graduation, loaden with Hashish and Taurine, James’ mind broke the shells of meager consciousness and in a burst of insight akin to putting the last piece of a puzzle in place, he *saw* the *world* - the code, the data, the stuff that made reality a bit less and yet a bit more real. A few days later, ‘L!Za’ sent his way a new “game”, but this time things were… real. Despite every fiber of his rational telling him not to, James followed L!Za’s lead into a highly-classified server, using his government’s workplace access as a jump point. Dumped by L!Za, who vanished from the connection and left to his own devise, deep in government high security web, James needed every bit of wit and luck to wiggle himself out with the data intact. Furious at being dumped alone, James thought his life with L!Za is over, until a package of futuristic VR set arrived at his doorstep. Logging in to the only address provided, James “met” L!Za, who instead of apologizing, invited him to a world he never imagined possible. And thus began the life of [Eot DE-Stuart], Virtual Adept initiate.
Quitting his job before his breach was found, and set to begin a new life, James Babbage accepted a teaching position at the quiet North Florida Technical College, while [Eot DE-Stuart] continued to initiate deeper and deeper into the VA, flowering as an online anarchist intellectual, critique and socialite.\\